Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:01:24 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> To: chip.wiegand@simrad.com Cc: nkinkade@dsl-only.net, freebsd - <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: can't find certain doc Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210231259560.20835-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <OFF8E1A26C.AEF1B9E1-ON88256C5B.005C5F6B-88256C5B.005D1B8E@simrad.no>
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On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 chip.wiegand@simrad.com wrote: > Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:52:58 -0700 > From: chip.wiegand@simrad.com > To: nkinkade@dsl-only.net > Cc: freebsd - <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Subject: Re: can't find certain doc > > > owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG wrote on 10/23/2002 09:02:41 AM: > > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 02:49:46PM -0700, chip.wiegand@simrad.com wrote: > > > I thought I saw a doc called something like 'what to do if your hard > drive > > > gets full'. I checked the docs > > > the freebsd.org and couldn't find anything like that. Is there a doc > out > > > there some place that tells me > > > what to do when the root partition fills up, for no apparent reason? > This > > > machine is strictly a web > > > backup box and rarely is used for anything else, yet the root partition > is > > > at 104%. > > > Try: > > # cd / > > # du -h -d 1 -I usr > > That helps a lot, thanks, though I still haven't found any one particularly > large file or directory. In /var/db/pkg is about 14megs, is it okay to > clear > that stuff? And in . is kernel and kernel.generic, do I need both of these? > I have gotten the du down to 98% so far, on a 150meg / partition. > /var/db/pkg is (I think) your packages and ports database. I don't think you want to remove that. The best thing to do when your hard drive gets full is get another, bigger one. They're cheap :) # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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